Comments about ‘Susan Rice withdraws as secretary of state candidate’

I think it is very unfortunate the way we run these peoples names into the
ground and yes that applies to people in both parties. Having said that and
knowing it will not happen I still beleive Huntsman would should at least be
considered as an option.

@TolstoySince it seems like Obama will nominate Republican Chuck Hagel to
Secretary of Defense, I have a feeling he won't appoint Democrats to both.
Then again, his long-expected backup of Kerry has a bit too much approval from
Republicans who personally I believe railroaded Rice just so Obama can pick
Kerry and allow Scott Brown to have another shot at a senate seat.

" .... I think it is very unfortunate the way we run these peoples names
into the ground ..."

Tolstoy - Susan Rice, all by her
lonesome, ran her own name into the ground. Place the "blame" where it
belongs.

Susan Rice was thrown under the bus by Obama when he
instructed her to lie to the American public about what went down in Benghazi.
She was dumb enough to follow his orders - this is why she is not qualified to
be secretary of state, and she knows it. The heat in the kitchen finally got too
high, and she got out of the kitchen. The American public is not stupid.

Does this mean we will finally know the truth about 9/11? I doubt it. We will
probably never know the truth about this or the true election results until
after we have passed on from this life. Sad that what Obama said would be a
transparent government with no secrecy will come to be known as the
administration of secrets and lies.

Attempts to paint Republicans as sexist and racist for opposing Susan Rice are
truly despicable (Republicans had the fist black women named Rice for Secretary
of State)

Susan Rice sullied her own name when she went on the TV
circuit spreading lies to obfuscate Benghazi

I am sure Obama was
smart enough to see the writing on the wall and knew that if he nominated Rice -
Benghazi would be in the news all over again (and this time he may not be able
to bury it in a lapdog press)By getting Rice to play the martyr and
withdraw her own name; He can further bury his foreign affairs incompetence and
continue with the race and gender warfare that seems to have served him well.

I can understand Rice spouting White House instructions for a day or two, but
after that she would have to be pretty dumb not to realize what was going on in
Libya. I would rather have her than Kerry at the job.

There has to be other hidden baggage here as well. The Benhazi scandal is
nothing outside of Fox Noise and the few tin foiled hats who follow it. BO does
not want a fight on such a meaningless appointment. He has a few Supreme Court
appointments coming up and a fiscal cliff prior to the mid terms. The way the
GOP is going they're going to hand Congress to the lib's and BO will
spend his last 2 years in office cramming his agenda down the throat of the 1%.

Of course it was the fault of the process. Of course it was. Of course it was.
Hmm, I cannot even convince myself of that baloney. It wasn't
anyone's fault but Obama, who gave approval for the lies, and Ms. Rice who
took one for the ol' gipper. That's what happens when you are loyal
to politicians.

First, why did Obama trot out Susan Rice (The U.S. ambassador to the U.N.) to
all the networks with a story that was an obvious lie? Rice is not to fault
here, except she didn't have the character to tell Obama no--she should
have. What in the world was she doing this for anyway? She's the wrong
person and she had nothing to do with Benghazi. She was a sacrificial lamb.
Still, I have no respect for someone who agrees to go before television cameras
on national TV and tell the same lie to every news station. She is categorically
unqualified to represent this country in any capacity.Second, the only
person who is really culpable in this whole Benghazi mess is the president of
the United Stated, yes, the liar in chief, he gave that order to Susan Rice, he
dictated the message, and he should resign for this deliberate lie. But, alas,
the press protects him, the Democrats protect him, and nobody wants the truth
anyway; we certainly will not get it from this administration.

@FT "The Benhazi scandal is nothing outside of Fox" You are correct as
far as the media is concerned who is in fact in Obamas front pocket. You are a
real piece of work to refer to the Bengazi scandal as nothing. In addition to
the Ambassador two of my veteran brothers died in that fiasco. If one of those
brave warriors was your son would Bengazi still be nothing.We have gotten from
Obama the same as we got from Fast and furious. Stonewalling just short of
Executive privledge. One question. Have you ever served your Country? I doubt
it.

She sealed her fate when she went on 5 networks and spouted the President's
words verbatim for all the world to hear. Then she said she only gave what
intelligence reports told her to say. Intelligence, means smart people in this
case, did not even come close to saying those words, especially 5 days after the
incident. Then to go on the networks and state the obvious, NOT, and be the
errand runner for the administration when the President or Secretary of State
Clinton should have been the targets for the message errata.

Those
two lacked the courage to say what they told Ms. Rice to say. She did her duty
but when you don't tell the truth, it comes back to bite you, sooner and in
this case later. The President got his second term and Ms. Rice will get some
prize for her job on television.

What a shame that we might end of
with John Kerry, who has his own backlog of problems starting with his medal
throwing incidents and demeaning actions for and about the military. His
campaign also has items that surfaced that will impact on his appointment,
either Defense or State.

This is politics. Pure and simple. The story has been told hundreds of times
before, just the names of those who play it change. Our country losses the
chance of having another well educated, loyal patriot serve at the expense of
the country club boys playing in the beltway. Ms. Rice will be o.k., finding
other ways to serve her country. Just put her name along so many other
casualites of politics (e.g. Bork).

"Our country losses the chance of having another well
educated, loyal patriot serve at the expense of the country club boys playing in
the beltway."

There was nothing well educated or loyally
patriotic about Susan Rice's opening statement on Meet the Press on 9/16.
The statement was contrary to what everyone else knew. So why didn't she
know it? Whether or not she was given bad intel, the fact of the matter is that
everyone else knew, if not an incompetent intelligence community (which by the
way they are denying), that this was no spontaneous attack. Whether she was told
to say what she said or not, this makes her looks incredibly incompetent and
unfit for duty in such a high position of trust and confidence.